Comments on: Woman Arrested for “Doctor Shopping”

By: Appalachian Nurse

Appalachian Nurse — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:38:43 +0000

Sadly, not every pharmacy submits their CII and CIII prescriptions correctly to the PMP boards. If every since one did and the different states were linked, it would be far more difficult to have something like this happen and far easier to find the culprits.

By: Johnnie

Johnnie — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:30:45 +0000

Our surgical office just updated the medication forms that we ask patients to complete when they come in to see one of our surgeons. We have added a question asking every patient if they have been prescribed a narcotic within the last 30 days. Of course, the patients that are “doctor shopping” will simply lie and answer “no”.

By: Donald

Donald — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:13:18 +0000

Wow, I didn’t even know that “doctor-shopping” existed before this.

By: VeritasAmore

VeritasAmore — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:09:49 +0000

One of the reasons Tennessee is on the radar is the VA pharmacist at Murphressboro/Nashville medical centers was arrested once it was determined that the ginormous increase in pharmaceuticals that started showing up in Appalachia were traced back to the VA system in Tennessee, Apparently, the pharmacist in question had one of two keys to the class II narcotics and she was “cooking the books” so to speak to cover her tracks. Eastern KY suffered thru spasms of overdoses, street crime, DUI arrests, broken families, etc. And that was BEFORE these meds showed up in huge quantities.